nottswarwick Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 OK, so I am sure there is a wealth of "information" on the web on this, but by bass buddies will no doubt be able to distill their collective experience into something meaningful. I am after a small, portable, reliable, easy to use video camera. I will use it to record songs at gigs, so it needs to be good in low light, and able to pick up decent sound without any external mics. I will also use it in my teaching studio to do youtube clips etc. I used to use a Fuji Digital Cam - a finepix 5600 or something, one of those "almost SLR" jobbies, and the mic and picture gave very good results - certainly good enough for the internet, where the end results will end up. However, I sold it, and got a Nikon D90 SLR, which I am not happy lending out to our roadie to film us on - he would be careful, but it is too valuable in case anything happens. So, ladies and gents of bassdom, fire away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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davehux Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 I use a Sony Handicam - a HDR-CX115 - which is probably obsolete by now. Has a Carl Zeiss lens, records onto an SD card in HD and has Dolby stereo sound. Will record for about 2 hours on a charge, if you can't have it running on the mains adapter. Mine has a 64Gb card in it, which will record around 900 minutes of video. The only drawback is that red stage lights knock the autofocus to pot. Some clips here - obviously they've been compressed to hell to get onto YouTube. The originals are superb. https://www.youtube.com/user/JumpTheGunCornwall One other thing to point out is that it (and many others) record in AVCHD format, and if you use a Mac to edit, this format is not supported by iMovie. I had to buy iSkySoft Video Editor to read the files in without converting them first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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